Getting It Wrong

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About 90% of people get it wrong, no matter the wording. It doesn't matter if you put incentives into it. People tend to do something that some people interpret as confirmation by us. The correct answer is to turn over the vowl because you've got a check that is even on the other side.

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Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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